V. Stiviano, who reportedly recorded disgraced basketball mogul Donald Stirling making racist comments, was the victim of a racist attack in downtown Manhattan, her lawyer says.

Stiviano was punched and taunted with anti-black epithets around 7 p.m. on Sunday night near the Gansevoort Hotel in the city’s trendy meatpacking district, her lawyer, Mac Nehoray told The Star on Monday.

“She was leaving a restaurant by the hotel,” Nehoray said by email. “The two men who attacked her punched her on the right side of her face several times.”

The two attackers then fled the scene.

The men knew who she was and targeted her for the attack, Nehoray said, adding she will file a police report.

Stiviano was reportedly Stirling’s girlfriend when she made secret recordings of the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner telling her not to bring blacks to Clippers’ games, including basketball legend Magic Johnson.

Widespread outrage over the recordings prompted NBA commissioner Adam Silver to fine Stirling $2.5 million, ban him from basketball for life and force him to sell off the Clippers.

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